Word: mihail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Partially to compensate for the lack of a parade, Soviet officialdom declared a Charlie Chaplin festival, ordered a Shakespeare revival. Last year admiring Russians sent Chaplin a bear cub in the care of Tanker Skipper Mihail Katzel (see cut). Last week, at a gala showing of The Gold Rush (with sound), Red intellectuals again saluted the little man who, in Russian eyes, can do no wrong. Keynoted Solomon Mikhoels, director of the Jewish Art Theater: "Who are these . . . mercenary tricksters of the Hearst and McCormick tabloid press . . . who started slinging mud . . . morally to discredit Chaplin's name...
...statesman who capitulated at Vienna on orders from Carol II, Foreign Minister Mihail Manoilescu, last week suffered a nervous breakdown on the train back to Bucharest. But more than nerves were breaking. Rumanian editors, who for years had supported the regime, suddenly turned around and told the people of graft and corruption in building the Carol Line, denounced rampant rottenness in State and Court...
...Berlin Axis graciously gave Hungary a nibble of Czecho-Slovakia, Counts Teleki and Csaky again met their Axis mentors last week. Besides their old friends, Germany's Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and Italy's Count Galeazzo Ciano, they had the pleasure of meeting Rumanian Foreign Minister Mihail Manoilescu. M. Manoilescu had been summoned by the Axis. The German and Italian Foreign Ministers were there simply to lend their good offices to the discussions, to point the way to a resumption of negotiations...
Rumania was first on the carpet, its delegation led by white-haired, monocled Premier Ion Gigurtu, who made his fortune in gold mining. Accompanying him was black-haired, swarthy Foreign Minister Mihail Manoilesco, who lost a fortune in coal mining. If anything good was coming to Rumania from Germany, Gigurtu was the man to get it. As a youth he studied at the Mining Academy in Freiberg, Germany, has kept his old German friends and made many more. He has long advocated closer economic cooperation between Germany and Rumania in the belief that they are geographically best suited to cooperate...